Will Smith Quotes

I have never, ever been embarrassed by saying, 'I don't know.' I think maybe that's part of that longevity of my career. Sometimes I have to say, 'I don't know but I'll find out. Call me next week.'

There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

I generally will answer any question about anything.

I make my mistakes in public.

I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied until I get the answers.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

I'm a realist, not a sugar coater. I believe in always letting people know what their obstacles are. And at the end of the day, I just want to be respected for my hard work.

I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don't know it.

We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.

Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

We have learned the answers, all the answers: It is the question that we do not know.

If you are curious, you'll find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Young people are so positive and have an answer for everything.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

I've said some things that are a little bit off the wall, but I don't run away and hide from them.

I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.

You can consider me stubborn, but I think I'm really intelligent.

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a 'can-do' attitude. You could call that 'can-do' attitude optimism, but it is not Pollyannaish optimism. Rather, it is a 'we'll figure it out' type of mentality.

Growing up, I feel like my character was so much about being a problem-solver and a truth-seeker and always needing to get to the bottom of everything.

I think a lot of people that don't know me would say that I lead by example, which I feel like I do. But at the same time, I'm someone who's always been very up-front with people. I'm gonna get straight to the point.

I came into the game showing you that I'm no angel. I'm not perfect and this is why I tell people off the top.